Newsday.com: Building the Sept. 11 memorial will require a gigantic fundraising effort

Newsday.com: Building the Sept. 11 memorial will require a gigantic fundraising effort: "Building the Sept. 11 memorial will require a gigantic fundraising effort


By AMY WESTFELDT
Associated Press Writer

December 7, 2005, 11:17 AM EST

NEW YORK -- In three months, workers will begin to lay the foundations for two huge, reflecting pools to mark the World Trade Center tower footprints, surrounded by names of the nearly 3,000 Sept. 11 victims and framed by an outdoor plaza and a glade of oak trees.

Under a timetable set by Gov. George E. Pataki, the World Trade Center memorial and a memorial museum are scheduled to open by 2009, the eighth anniversary of the attacks. "